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(If you like podcasts, yesterday my co-editor @VivekYKelkar and I recorded a podcast with @Tracinski in which we explained what @cosmo_globalist is, why we think a publication like this is important, and what we're trying to do: )

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Claire Berlinski. Profile picture
22 Apr
I wish to report that I've discovered a 100 percent excellent way to recycle the San Pellegrino bottles, and I'm so pleased by this that I must take to Twitter *immediately* to tell the world.

We begin with this humble felt gardening bag. ImageImage
I've had five of them lying around since forever. I felt guilty about that, too. They weren't expensive, but I feel guilty about anything I buy and don't use. The problem: They're too big for seedlings. Filling them with soil is costly.

Behold the empty San Pellegrino bottle: Image
(I've cut holes in it. You have to look closely. I didn't do a very attractive job, but they're about to be covered in soil.)

Now look: Image
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Claire Berlinski. Profile picture
21 Apr
I just woke up and only just saw about the (condign) George Floyd verdict. I'm baffled by the emotions people are feeling. I'm seeing reports of joyful celebration, as if it's a football game. But this verdict can't undo his death. Shouldn't this be a somber moment?
There are two tragedies here: Floyd's death and whatever killed Chauvin's soul. One man will never live again, the other is will live in a prison cell, a pariah and symbol of depravity. What's happy about this outcome?
Justice is a sober thing. A necessary thing. But it can't be, in a case like this, a joyful thing. There's no way to make it right. Only just.

The whole thing just makes me sad and sick.
I don't get the celebrations.
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15 Apr
To be honest, I knew almost none of this before reading @VivekYKelkar's piece. Once I'd read it, though, I realized that I'd been poorly served by the news outlets I read: How could you possibly understand what's happening there unless you know this, at a minimum?
This is exactly the kind of piece I hoped we'd publish: I think it meets all of the criteria we decided we wanted to fulfill on our very first Zoom call:
It gives me so much satisfaction that we said, "We want to make *this* exist" ... and it now exists! If you've never brought a complex project into being, starting from scratch, I highly recommend you do it once in your life. It's really satisfying.
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Claire Berlinski. Profile picture
14 Apr
Extremely important:

"Each night for more than a week, unregistered flights between Yangon and Kunming have been transporting unknown goods and personnel from China to Myanmar. The military regime that’s now in charge of Myanmar is trying very hard to hide the flights.
"Whoever has arranged these flights is going to great lengths to hide them. The planes’ transponders have been turned off, a violation of international aviation rules. .. Beyond that, the Kunming Airport hasn’t registered them online as arrivals.
"The situation in Myanmar suggests two possibilities for what the planes are carrying. One is that they’re bringing in Chinese troops and cyber specialists to help the Tatmadaw control access to information and the internet.
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14 Apr
Two days ago I ordered delivery of six full-sized bottles of San Pellegrino. I woke up this morning to discover there are none left. I've drunk them all.

I feel such mixed emotions.
Shame: I went on a gluttonous sparkling-water bender. The stuff's expensive.

Pride: I *dare* the next person to lecture me about the importance of drinking enough water.
Bafflement: Why did I mindlessly drink six full-sized bottles of San Pellegrino? It's not like editing @cosmo_globalist is thirsty work.

Meta-shame: What's wrong with me that I can feel guilty about something like drinking San Pellegrino?
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9 Apr
Do you live in a country where the only vaccines available are from China or Russia? @cosmo_globalist correspondent @akshaya_jose is writing for us about vaccine diplomacy and wants to know about your experiences of it. Would you please let her know if you do?
You needn't be any kind of expert. She just wants to know how you feel about these vaccines and the countries that made them available to you, or perhaps how you feel about US/EU vaccine diplomacy @0kanAltiparmak @omersayli, @navalny @NighswanderJon
(Jon, you can help connect her); @RashaAlAqeedi @RobertMHolley35 @VladDavidzon @davidhazony @borzou @Atul_Gawande @ShayKhatiri @EMehmetKiral @Nervana_1 ... this list of @s may seem random, @akshaya_jose; but it's not, not totally:
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